Showing posts with label Penny and Ullysses Jr.. Show all posts
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15 April 2018

Sunday Morning Funnies - Old Friends Edition

Most of our friends for this morning's Sunday Morning Funnies come to us from Supersnipe. Koppy is here to help out his friend Ulysses, but his costumed persona won't be joining us this morning.
Before that, however, let's check in with a couple of residents of his book, but not his world. (I think. Y'never know...)

First up, the mad stylings of Dwig, creator of Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer and their Robot Duck. Another of his very odd strips that ran in Supersnipe was the castaway adventures of young Bobby Crusoe -


It gets stranger after that.

But strange was no stranger to Supersnipe & company. And Muffo The Magician has only gotten stranger since last we saw him...


With those sort of back-up featuers, Ulysses Q. Wacky, boy inventor, almost seemed quite normal by comparison, no? Koppy (Supersnipe) McFadd is here to help Wacky create his Flying Suit...


Okay. Let's let them rest.

While Koppy and Ulysses recuperate, we'll go check in with Ulysses Jr, from another old favorite - Louis Ferstadt. We've seen the two previous - here's the 3rd and final episode of Penny And Ulysses Jr. - Kalamazooki!


Now my day's off to a proper odd start.

pages from Supersnipe v3#8, v2#12, & v1#7 and All-New Comics #11 (1943-7)


11 February 2018

Sunday Morning Funnies - Ladies Leading

The 3rd issue, #6.

For today's Sunday Morning Funnies we'll be jumping back to 1944.

Harvey published a short-lived anthology title, All-New Comics, which ran only a dozen issues. Just to be confusing, #1 was #4 - so only 12, not 15 issues, despite the numbering. As seen on the cover to right, the book featured a variety of standard action/adventure tales, but it also contained some lightly whimsical comedies, too.

As you might note on the cover to #6 there, the Black Cat was a regular star. She's probably one of the best remembered Harvey heroes, but several other ladies had their own features in the book, with their male sidekicks tagging along. Rather unusual for almost 75 years ago, so let's make that our focus today.

So, here's Penny with Ullysses Jr, and Blonde Bomber with Slapso, from issues 6 & 9. Artwork for the Penny comics is by Louis Ferstadt. The other credits are lost to antiquity -




pages from All-New Comics #s 6 & 9 (1944)